The conversation was still going, but they had no intention of wasting any more time. Qian Wanyu gave her a hand signal, and she understood.
The lively vines darted through the grass covering the ground, approaching them without a sound.
"What's that!"
People who survived in the wilderness were always especially alert. The moment they heard the faint rustling of vines against grass, they called out a warning.
The chubby little child had just acquired an enormous water monster and was in an excellent mood. Without waiting for Dongfang Minghui's reminder, Little Lecher jumped out and cast a net that stretched from heaven to earth. Vines danced across the sky, looking like countless claws beneath the faint light in the pitch-black wilderness, enough to send a chill down anyone's spine.
"A wood-element Spirit Master."
Whenever they saw a plant-related attack, everyone's first thought was that a wood-element Spirit Master was causing trouble from the shadows.
Small balls of flame attacked the weaving vines. Besides that, two of the five were ice-element Spirit Masters, one wielded the earth element, and another the wood element. Yet to the chubby child, their attacks barely tickled and mattered not at all.
"Boss, these vines aren't afraid of fire."
After the fire-element Spirit Master's little fireballs had attacked Little Lecher for a while, he discovered to his horror that the vines had not retreated. Instead, the dozen or so strands had become hundreds, surrounding them completely.
The two ice-element Spirit Masters tried to draw water from the nearby river to freeze the vines. But even after a large area had been frozen over, Little Lecher's vines remained active, only slightly slower than before. "These vines are too freakish."
The chubby child had first suffered fire attacks, then attacks from two ice-element Spirit Masters. Hot one